I think you’re an analysis is very balanced. Reading through the comments here you definitely have people on both sides who aren’t happy with what you’re saying, I believe that’s a good indication you’re providing a balanced perspective, I appreciate you.
The US is a strange country. When I visited there a few years ago what shocked me most was the massive level of consumerism. It was pervasive everywhere in the society. And the media, and it's made a lot worse with social media, is constantly about getting it's audience to consume. To get u to consume they pump the people with their distorted narrative and with fear. Divide and conquer. Fear and consumption. It's a deeply divided, fearful nation, taken over by the ideology of consumerism.
Not wrong. On the other hand, consumerism drives growth. Without growth, capitalism becomes unviable. No other economic system has proven viable for creating prosperity and giving citizens lives that are comfortable and, at least materially, healthy and meaningful, despite magical fantasies about alternatives.
It's the largest economy in the world, people have the money to spend. It's largely tuned out anyways like most ads are anywhere. Ever walked around any shopping center in Asia it's worse, but ok because it's creative. People still form and construct their lives as they want. Ads just try And make you feel like you need to be with the in crowd. 😊
My dad used to talk to me about the dangers of consumerism way back in the early seventies when I was a teenager. I had no idea why he was so adamant about it. Now I know
@@calvinsaxon5822apparently you have not visited France, Italy, Norway, Portugal these are just a few of my favorites. Just go to one, I’d suggest Italy, rent an Airbnb for a month. Get to know the locals. Then you’ll get it
Mr. Bremmer, the only thing I believe, online, offline, from social media, mainstream and sidestream media, and even from barbershop visits is that one can never go wrong by underestimating the general intelligence of the American public ! This depressing fact is highlighted in elections, corporate board meeting decisions and especially how politicians perform their public duties.
The "general intelligence" of the public is absolutely gone, what are you talking about? They have just re-elected the guy who tried to overthrow the government, doesn't believe in democracy, and tanked the economy 4 years ago. The "generally intelligence" doesn't even wonder why we had to stimulate the economy in the first place? Because we had 18% unemployment from Trump... and they put that guy back in power. In the age of social media - its the general lack of intelligence of the public. Look at Brexit and how that public intelligence worked out.
Just like Trump lost to COVID in 2020, Harris lost to inflation in 2024. Most voters living from paycheck to paycheck unlikely watched the news, but had to stare at the pricetags in the supermarkets and see the rent go up.
Yes…Rent or home insurance, car insurance, food/needs, and gas. The “middle class” majority who have not received wage increases that stayed up with inflation feel worse or much worse off. And the few that did gain something in their check, look at their achievements as lost to inflation.
That i can understand. How people expect Trump and the possee behind him to make it better - after they already saw 4 years of attempted governement - now THAT is beyond my understanding.
The news of what though? Propaganda? The things the left media have said about Trump are all things that are untrue or Trump himself said he's against, yet the left elites keep on shoving it down our throats that he's for. That's why I left the left, not to mention the abuse towards anyone who doesn't 100% agree with them. Not to mention Kamala didn't have anything of value to say but to harass the other side. Anyone who saw unbiased, factual news saw how the border was, how many already offenders were coming to the country illegally and rpng and severely abusing women and children because they know the punishment is lighter in the US if at all, how woke nonsense has gone way too far that even centrists and millions of leftists voted for Trump. So on. Also, LOOK fml at the voting map. The only places which are majority blue are the rich urban city areas. Everywhere else, especially rural, is red. The lower class happily voted red. The upper class happily voted blue, if it wasn't already obvious from the hundreds of millionaire celebrities who are rich because of social media said they're blue. Your average red if you stepped outside would be someone just trying to afford life. If Harris lost to inflation, that's even more proof that those who don't care about it would vote blue cuz it doesn't affect their pockets, but those whose pockets are affected, like the lower class, needed to vote red. And I don't want any propaganda spewing about how he's against the lower class, or a bunch of isms and phobes and slurs. He's not any of those. I say that as a leftist myself, I just like the real truth and not just leftie hit pieces of him.
Peace and prosperity is the lie. No educated society destroys its capacity to survive by exploiting nature as a product. The economy is great but the environment is dying.
If anyone wants to know what is happening, talk to animal rights movement. We know the depravity of agriculture and all the powerful interests behind the economies of animal agriculture and the medical industry that rose out of it. Power wants power. Read Charles Pattersons book Eternal Treblinka Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust to understand what got us here . Read Piers Beirne's book, Murdering Animals Writings on Theriocide Homicide and Non speciesist Criminology. Human supremacy isca sickness.
I'm not an American, and I find both parties laughable. In fact, your entire political system is laughable. With that said: Sometimes you feel so strongly about subject x, that you are willing to compromise on subject y,z.. in order to influence subject x. I highly doubt that the majority of Conservatives voted because they find the above mentioned things acceptable, but they likely have a problem with immigration, wokeism or abortion. Many probably even voted for the Conservative party, because that's what they have always done. When you live in a democracy you have to accept that other people think something else than you, and that sometimes they will win elections, implementing things you don't like.When that happens, it is your job to not automatically think of them as inherently bad people. They can have bad reasons for thinking as they do, but they can also have good reasons. Either way, we don't know.
Oh, and when there's only truly two relevant parties to vote on, the alternative to voting on the thing you believe in, will be to vote on the thing you really don't believe in. Imagine if Trump wasn't surrounded by controversies and that he was just a business man, still as stupid and orange as today and Kamala had been accused of 'grape', how would you vote?
Did you not actually listen to or attempt to comprehend the video you commented on? I’m not saying he’s correct, but he gave some reasonable answers to your root question.
Google productivity vs pay and you'll soon find out. The truth is, both major parties set about impoverishing America's working class since pay was decoupled from productivity in the late 70s..what you are now seeing is the inevitable consequence of that. Trump is merely the manifestation of modern America.
this is the very first time I hear someone explain why musk turned against biden. as a european who finds the whole US politics thing baffling that explanation was really helpful.
What he is raising about , whole primaries, bringing in money, donation and lobbies and what not, that changes the loyalty of the candidate before even he is elected.
Interesting points but you're still sane-washing Trump. The supreme court have given him carte blanche to do as he pleases. I would be very surprised if he feels the need to follow president or law when it comes to his actions. Also he does care what governments the countries he is making deals with have, the more dictatorial the better. It wasn't Trudeau he saluted when he met them.
Yes, people dont like high prices. The cause is not immigrants; it's corporate greed, but it's easier to believe the price of eggs and rent is due to those who don't look like you. Shades of 1933 Germany.
I retired recently, and what I've found is that there ARE a lot of bad actors out there, there IS a lot of bad information disseminated for a variety of reasons, but I thought I was pretty well informed until I had the 2-4 hours PER DAY, to both ferret out reliable sources and comb through what they got wrong and have corrected, and to try to parse good information from bad in a more general sense. Information divorced from political or personal ideology or bias. The three network information environment i grew up with may be the only viable model to accurately inform a public who works/commutes more than 40 hours a week, or are otherwise exposed to the type of information overload that modern for profit media demands.
Certain ideologies influence the decision of what to report. I think it would be better to visualize the ideology behind the news. I think it would be relatively easy to label it using AI.
Trump garnered roughly rhe same number of votes as he received in 2016 and 2020. It is the votes that the democrat candidates received that changed. Kamala received roughly similar to what Hillary received. The difference is the 14 million additional votes that were counted for Biden. Where did those voters go? That is the topic that needs discussion...
@DBLDQ One in ten voters stayed home? It is possible, but why did they turn out for Biden during a pandemic? This is why I said, "This is the topic..."
I keep hearing that a majority of Americans do not like the direction that the country is heading without anyone ever telling me just what that direction is. Also, is this direction real or imagined, created by the media, especially rightwing media? Is it just a phony narrative or legitimately true? In the end, a majority of Americans thought that a convicted felon who attempted a coup, who can't stop lying, and can't be trusted with very sensitive documents/information, and who may very well be on his last legs, was the better choice.
@brigham2250, all very true. How is that a "better direction"??? (I've hated that question-- what does that even mean? It's not a ship headed for an island! It's going many directions.)
comparing apples to oranges. It's a constitutional republic as opposed to a monarchy. It's a democracy as opposed to an autocracy or dictatorship. Learn the definitions, please!!
@@garygagnon4637Nah you guys will have a safer more prosperous country with more money in your pockets while still claiming Trump is the devil. Enjoy your right to free speech fellow American.
@@OrangeClown34 May be. May be not. Why not wait and see. If he’s everything you guys seem to think he is then rightfully go in on him, but may be just may be he’s not the monster you guys have ben led to believe.
i've been a full-time independent political consultant and political journalist since 2010. My Voting Bloc of 3,500 is galvanized to replace Establishment Democrats with True Progressives AND create a viable 3rd party that truly stands with the middle class, the working class, and the poor.
'True Progressive' basically lets divide people into ever more tighter groups and then place grievance labels worth points... 160 points if you of a marginalised group, 100 points for black, 50 points for Asians and of course minus 500 points for white working class without a college education and add minus a thousand point if you love your country...As an immigrant, I saw us coming together, yes racism was pretty bad in the 70's but it got better in the 80's and even better in the 90's and by the early 2000's I thought we had got there as both the far right and the far left had been pushed into the far corners....but out of no where this new word started popping up 'progressive' along with diverse, inclusive etc. etc. and this has undone all the hard work to bring people and communities together..how utterley sad...
this is why democrats loss "The primary problem is not disinformation. The primary problem is people listen to it because key functions of their government aren't working, and they're asking themselves: why doesn't it work?" Alex karp
Nope, that does not hold water, proven by the fact there are MILLIONS of us out here that live in the same country, the same states, the same cities and we did not fall for the disinformation, we use our critical-thinking skills. Until certain people act like accountable adults and realize A) they have been duped by soundbites because they could not be bothered to check the veracity of a conspiracy before repeating/sharing it, and B) make an effort to push back against the people who assumed them to be gullible enough to fall for nonsense...
Partly agree, however no government or country will be prosperous all the time through any circumstances, there will always be situations of distress on any country and democracies are far easier to be taken advantage of during these situations.
If we "still have a functioning House & Senate, in 2026" it will be "interesting" to see How "popular" Trump-GOP Policies are with Americans (If Americans are still capable of "disseminating any facts)"..
No matter what, a huge contingent of people here will believe what they are fed. Right now, they’re being fed by Elon Musk’s X, where he controls the narrative. So, even if they’re going through a bad situation, they may not recognize it. He who controls the narrative, wins!
But Mr Bremmer, you are a part of media now. I listen to you to understand better different issues on the international stage. Far from I always agree with your take on everything but you are honest about it. I listen to several other analysts as well eg Mersheimer, Jeffrey Sachs, Glenn Diesen etc. Legacy media? Not so much other then to take the pulse on what the official "narrative" is. Most MSM now basically activism journalism...gets boring and uninteresting very quickly.
With Germany yesterday, Ian Bremmer just the person to interview. Foreign policy seems to already be in Trump's hands with BiBi. Hope Ian says differently.
Thought leaders abound and the multiplicity of perspectives that create shared values are mirrored in the comments. We guard against our own biases. Power is neutral, it for whom we weild it that makes us exponential or imploding. We will the good for humankind. As you have mentioned, we make mistakes, we are fallible, we learn from each other's fallibility. Thank you Ian for bringing more to light.
Brilliant analysis. "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy ride [night]...." 6:07 Inflation is going to spike under Trump's policies, and these will also raise inflation in the Western democracies, which are struggling to reduce their debts from covid binge spending, through taxation. 14:50 I agree, the 2 year run up to an election, (and its obscene cost) is an industry unto itself. Already I heard the day after the election " we are now 1 day closer to the mid terms". Surely this perpetual politics is a major reason why half of the eligible electorate do not vote.
Remember when TED was cool and interesting Technology, Entertainment, and Design? Politics infect everything. I don't want or need to hear your politics, I can get that on literally every show, every channel, every social media platform. Disinfect TED
I remember 11ish years ago, seeing an episode where a woman talked about the power in being wrong, and how it was an advantage to find those instances and learn/grow from them. That one talk alone helped my life significantly. Now, the political horseradish TED pushes resembles nothing like what it shared 11 years ago.
Are you suggesting you are tied to a chair and forced to watch? If there is a specific video you don't want to watch....don't watch it, I've done that for the entire history of TED, it's very simple unless you are (ironically) looking to score a political point.
When I was watching traditional media news, I would watch the speech that Trump would give in full then listen to what the the media said about it and it was never the truth on what he was saying. It's as simple as that.
Bremmer sounds quite pro Trump and considers Trump clever and a decent leader: I hear no real alarm or concern about Trump being the new U.S. leader. I hear no concern about Trump’s age, physical fitness or mental instability. He seems to present Trump as a very smooth, slick operator who has learned from the past.
though his book; Power Shift was published in 1990 and I just finished reading it and a brief of summary of what Toffler wrote 30 years ago: In Powershift, Alvin Toffler describes a shift in power from traditional government and economic sources to a new "third wave" of influence driven by knowledge and information control. This "third government" isn’t a formal government but a network of non-state actors-like corporations, media, and global organizations-that shape power by controlling narratives. Toffler’s vision aligns with current dynamics in the 2024 election, where media, social networks, and corporate influence play a large role, illustrating how power is now more decentralized and information-driven.
8:10 The question asked is facile and alarming. Many Americans know the numbers, too, but the truth to them is rent increases of 10-20%, 3+ years of loan rate increases, and car insurance increases of $1000s/year, so lower inflation reports are a meaningless metric. Even Americans with wealth feel it. It’s not denial of the numbers, it just doesn’t ring true compared to reality.
And the over-analysis continues. The simple fact is that 72% of potential voters did not care to stop Trump from reinhabiting the Whitehouse. Everyone knew who he was. Ignorance is no excuse when apathy is the reason.
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Jack Ma owned Alibaba and was the richest man in China until he “crossed” the CCP. HE criticized the Chinese government. He disappeared and now is a teacher. Will Elon Musk use his influence on Trump to favor China or face the dire consequence of CCP’s displeasure?
"Why am I worried for Taiwan" .. And will Marcos Jr become more like his father or will Duterte make a comeback .. Indonesia, Malaysia ? I'm worried about Democracy on the run, without US (US Backed UN) "Requiring Human Rights" ..
8 minutes. Anyone that is going to be honest about it and actually watched CNN NBC ABC all running up to the election would say that all of those outlets were disingenuous in both their coverage and polling numbers.
Thank you for your insights. But just as a reminder only half of the American citizens share trump's values and we are deeply concerned about the future of our country and its relationship with our allies and adversaries.
Biden got 81m votes in the last election and Kamala only got 68m whereas Trump got the same number of votes. What happened to those 13m votes? How did they magically disappear?
You see, there's this thing called "learning how to count," which you need to work on since you haven't waited for all the votes to be counted, and there was this thing called covid lockdowns, which gave everyone unlimited free time, and there is this thing called "turnout," which I can best describe in the sentence "your braincells didn't turnout when you wrote that comment."
I know way too many who voted democratic last time, who didn’t vote this time. There’s no conspiracy here; it’s primarily the youth vote. Millions participated in the “no vote” movement to make a point to Dems, especially about the war.
GDP is no measure of a working person’s lived experience, much of what it measures is actually a sign of extreme unhealthiness in its citizens (healthcare costs, military spending for example) but the bottom line is that saying wages have risen more than anytime in the previous 20 years, is not recognising that a 10% increase in wages offset against 40% of inflation is a decrease to the worker. We do know this, and we see through the mealy mouthed data recital from people on $1,000,000 a year. We also know that your financial ascendancy relies on our impoverishment. We know the profits generated from our labour are going to shareholders and stock buybacks that benefit the wealthy in the form of dividends and obscene bonuses instead of into growing our measly cut. The gig is up, and when Trump destroys the economy we have nothing left to lose, and even better, we know you do.
Why are you really worried about economic growth, lower cost of living, ending wars and fixing our broken health system? Those sound like the good things Trump will do that I'm excited about.😕
@@Heidicode Thats what he promised.... either without saying how he plans to do so - or giving simplistic plans that hundreds of subject-matter specialist say will make things much worse. Think of the 100 professors. How do you people keep believing him? Keep believing he can get stuff done? His first admin was largely him making promises that never materialized. He just says stuff, but never delievers. Its not what he "will do" but what he fabulated about, giving no reason but blind hope to believe it. Ahh well, you elected the man. We all will have to suffer the consequences. I hope I´m wrong and your unfounded belief in a proven conman miraculously tunrs out correct. But I would be reeeeaallly surprised if in 4 years both of us are not much poorer and the US a much worse place to live in.
Re: 6:25, Prices don't "come down". I mean, please call out the stupidity of this belief, which is widespread among Trump voters, i.e. the idea that Trump is not only going to tame inflation but is going to make "prices go down". There is no such thing. That's called deflation. If that is happening, the economy is in a really bad place.
But it's not inflation actually, but buying power isn't it. And how anyone can think that the sponsors of the Republican party will stand for policies that will improve the buying power of the bottom 50-75% I consider the great con of modern times.
I think you’re an analysis is very balanced. Reading through the comments here you definitely have people on both sides who aren’t happy with what you’re saying, I believe that’s a good indication you’re providing a balanced perspective, I appreciate you.
Gracias.........:)
Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. -Yoda.
History repeating itself like in 1933.
This was actually from a long, long time ago…
I wish this quote went viral it would really help this country..!
Saw this on another channel...
2016 A New Hope
2020 The Empire Strikes Back
2024 The Return of the Jedi
FYI. I supported 3rd party this election.
Focusing on social justice instead of the cost of eggs is why we lost
The US is a strange country. When I visited there a few years ago what shocked me most was the massive level of consumerism. It was pervasive everywhere in the society. And the media, and it's made a lot worse with social media, is constantly about getting it's audience to consume. To get u to consume they pump the people with their distorted narrative and with fear. Divide and conquer. Fear and consumption. It's a deeply divided, fearful nation, taken over by the ideology of consumerism.
As an American I think your assessment of us is spot on
Not wrong. On the other hand, consumerism drives growth. Without growth, capitalism becomes unviable. No other economic system has proven viable for creating prosperity and giving citizens lives that are comfortable and, at least materially, healthy and meaningful, despite magical fantasies about alternatives.
It's the largest economy in the world, people have the money to spend. It's largely tuned out anyways like most ads are anywhere. Ever walked around any shopping center in Asia it's worse, but ok because it's creative. People still form and construct their lives as they want. Ads just try And make you feel like you need to be with the in crowd. 😊
My dad used to talk to me about the dangers of consumerism way back in the early seventies when I was a teenager. I had no idea why he was so adamant about it. Now I know
@@calvinsaxon5822apparently you have not visited France, Italy, Norway, Portugal these are just a few of my favorites. Just go to one, I’d suggest Italy, rent an Airbnb for a month. Get to know the locals. Then you’ll get it
Mr. Bremmer, the only thing I believe, online, offline, from social media, mainstream and sidestream media, and even from barbershop visits is that one can never go wrong by underestimating the general intelligence of the American public !
This depressing fact is highlighted in elections, corporate board meeting decisions and especially how politicians perform their public duties.
And they still haven't woke up yet!
The "general intelligence" of the public is absolutely gone, what are you talking about? They have just re-elected the guy who tried to overthrow the government, doesn't believe in democracy, and tanked the economy 4 years ago. The "generally intelligence" doesn't even wonder why we had to stimulate the economy in the first place? Because we had 18% unemployment from Trump... and they put that guy back in power. In the age of social media - its the general lack of intelligence of the public. Look at Brexit and how that public intelligence worked out.
Just like Trump lost to COVID in 2020, Harris lost to inflation in 2024.
Most voters living from paycheck to paycheck unlikely watched the news, but had to stare at the pricetags in the supermarkets and see the rent go up.
Yes…Rent or home insurance, car insurance, food/needs, and gas. The “middle class” majority who have not received wage increases that stayed up with inflation feel worse or much worse off. And the few that did gain something in their check, look at their achievements as lost to inflation.
That i can understand.
How people expect Trump and the possee behind him to make it better - after they already saw 4 years of attempted governement - now THAT is beyond my understanding.
People should've watched the news and got some perspective. The whole world suffered inflation after Covid, it wasn't Biden's fault
So Trump will make their life better? Poor folks will stay poor, rich folks like Musk and Bezos will get more millions and billions.
The news of what though? Propaganda? The things the left media have said about Trump are all things that are untrue or Trump himself said he's against, yet the left elites keep on shoving it down our throats that he's for. That's why I left the left, not to mention the abuse towards anyone who doesn't 100% agree with them. Not to mention Kamala didn't have anything of value to say but to harass the other side. Anyone who saw unbiased, factual news saw how the border was, how many already offenders were coming to the country illegally and rpng and severely abusing women and children because they know the punishment is lighter in the US if at all, how woke nonsense has gone way too far that even centrists and millions of leftists voted for Trump. So on.
Also, LOOK fml at the voting map. The only places which are majority blue are the rich urban city areas. Everywhere else, especially rural, is red. The lower class happily voted red. The upper class happily voted blue, if it wasn't already obvious from the hundreds of millionaire celebrities who are rich because of social media said they're blue. Your average red if you stepped outside would be someone just trying to afford life. If Harris lost to inflation, that's even more proof that those who don't care about it would vote blue cuz it doesn't affect their pockets, but those whose pockets are affected, like the lower class, needed to vote red. And I don't want any propaganda spewing about how he's against the lower class, or a bunch of isms and phobes and slurs. He's not any of those. I say that as a leftist myself, I just like the real truth and not just leftie hit pieces of him.
"20% Worldwide Pandemic Inflation" .. People have Pandemic Amnesia, only conscious of the Prices ..
Peace and prosperity is the lie. No educated society destroys its capacity to survive by exploiting nature as a product. The economy is great but the environment is dying.
If anyone wants to know what is happening, talk to animal rights movement. We know the depravity of agriculture and all the powerful interests behind the economies of animal agriculture and the medical industry that rose out of it. Power wants power. Read Charles Pattersons book Eternal Treblinka Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust to understand what got us here . Read Piers Beirne's book, Murdering Animals Writings on Theriocide Homicide and Non speciesist Criminology. Human supremacy isca sickness.
Exactly. I keep saying this to people and they look at me like I'm an idiot 😷
@@0nFoot They linked economic anxiety w/ Immigration / blame and kept pounding on it ..
How can so many people find bigotry, dishonesty, criminality and greed acceptable. I am a saddened and ashamed to be an American right now.
I'm not an American, and I find both parties laughable. In fact, your entire political system is laughable. With that said: Sometimes you feel so strongly about subject x, that you are willing to compromise on subject y,z.. in order to influence subject x. I highly doubt that the majority of Conservatives voted because they find the above mentioned things acceptable, but they likely have a problem with immigration, wokeism or abortion. Many probably even voted for the Conservative party, because that's what they have always done. When you live in a democracy you have to accept that other people think something else than you, and that sometimes they will win elections, implementing things you don't like.When that happens, it is your job to not automatically think of them as inherently bad people. They can have bad reasons for thinking as they do, but they can also have good reasons. Either way, we don't know.
Oh, and when there's only truly two relevant parties to vote on, the alternative to voting on the thing you believe in, will be to vote on the thing you really don't believe in. Imagine if Trump wasn't surrounded by controversies and that he was just a business man, still as stupid and orange as today and Kamala had been accused of 'grape', how would you vote?
Did you not actually listen to or attempt to comprehend the video you commented on? I’m not saying he’s correct, but he gave some reasonable answers to your root question.
You can leave
Google productivity vs pay and you'll soon find out. The truth is, both major parties set about impoverishing America's working class since pay was decoupled from productivity in the late 70s..what you are now seeing is the inevitable consequence of that. Trump is merely the manifestation of modern America.
Rational unbiased commentary from Ian. A rare thing these days.
'from Ian'.
this is the very first time I hear someone explain why musk turned against biden. as a european who finds the whole US politics thing baffling that explanation was really helpful.
That was a great explanation and revelation about the values of Musk. He couldn't get a deal so he went the other direction.
For Musk, it’s all about business.
@@guneeta7896 Isn't for Trump also all about business ?
Good analysis of what Trump might do instead of all this whining about why he shouldn't have won.
In Singapore, our politics does not involve businessmen/celebrities/entertainers who openly express their support for one candidate or another.
Here we have more freedom of speech for Everybody.
We should be a reminder that it can happen to you too, maybe it just hasn't happened YET.
Yes but in Singapore you also impose long prison sentences for smoking weed. So there's that.
@@Annah382 Wait until you realise that Kamala wanted to arrest you for that
What he is raising about , whole primaries, bringing in money, donation and lobbies and what not, that changes the loyalty of the candidate before even he is elected.
Interesting points but you're still sane-washing Trump. The supreme court have given him carte blanche to do as he pleases. I would be very surprised if he feels the need to follow president or law when it comes to his actions.
Also he does care what governments the countries he is making deals with have, the more dictatorial the better. It wasn't Trudeau he saluted when he met them.
Yes, people dont like high prices. The cause is not immigrants; it's corporate greed, but it's easier to believe the price of eggs and rent is due to those who don't look like you. Shades of 1933 Germany.
They'll see it once it's too late!!!
People voted for Trump because they didn't like $5 eggs. Now, they get $10 eggs and authoritarian.
Also Izrale took down the Democrats.
The mass deportations will cause a recession or a depression as immigrant labor is baked into our GDP.
Corporate greed man!
I retired recently, and what I've found is that there ARE a lot of bad actors out there, there IS a lot of bad information disseminated for a variety of reasons, but I thought I was pretty well informed until I had the 2-4 hours PER DAY, to both ferret out reliable sources and comb through what they got wrong and have corrected, and to try to parse good information from bad in a more general sense. Information divorced from political or personal ideology or bias. The three network information environment i grew up with may be the only viable model to accurately inform a public who works/commutes more than 40 hours a week, or are otherwise exposed to the type of information overload that modern for profit media demands.
Certain ideologies influence the decision of what to report. I think it would be better to visualize the ideology behind the news. I think it would be relatively easy to label it using AI.
Very helpful analysis, thanks!
Ian needs to move to a room that doesn't have as much echo in it. Sound was bad.
Sounds like he's in a tiled sunroom.
could not watch
Ignorance is powerful .
Trump garnered roughly rhe same number of votes as he received in 2016 and 2020.
It is the votes that the democrat candidates received that changed.
Kamala received roughly similar to what Hillary received.
The difference is the 14 million additional votes that were counted for Biden. Where did those voters go?
That is the topic that needs discussion...
🤔🙄 maybe they didn’t exist in the first place . . .
The only showed up in suitcases during the “gas leaks” 4 years ago
I voted for Biden last time, neither this time. I can’t be the only one.
@DBLDQ
One in ten voters stayed home?
It is possible, but why did they turn out for Biden during a pandemic?
This is why I said, "This is the topic..."
@Ugottabekiddingme
There was statistical irregularities.
So good to listen too. This was fair and deep analysis… totally recommend watching
I keep hearing that a majority of Americans do not like the direction that the country is heading without anyone ever telling me just what that direction is. Also, is this direction real or imagined, created by the media, especially rightwing media? Is it just a phony narrative or legitimately true? In the end, a majority of Americans thought that a convicted felon who attempted a coup, who can't stop lying, and can't be trusted with very sensitive documents/information, and who may very well be on his last legs, was the better choice.
@brigham2250, all very true. How is that a "better direction"??? (I've hated that question-- what does that even mean? It's not a ship headed for an island! It's going many directions.)
This has been a sobering listen indeed.
Thank you for broadcasting.
Correction the USA is not a democracy it's a constitutional republic
Correction it is a democracy in the form of a constitutional republic.
A constitutional republic is by definition, a representative democracy.
That’s like saying…
“Correction, the Miami Dolphins are not a pro sports team. They are a pro football team.”
Herp Derp.
Schrödinger's government. Oh, wait....
comparing apples to oranges. It's a constitutional republic as opposed to a monarchy. It's a democracy as opposed to an autocracy or dictatorship. Learn the definitions, please!!
Talking to Ian Bremmer is like talking to an AI bot. He just recites the official talking points.
Agree, what insights?
We should just call a lie a lie.
Russian Collusion hoax was a lie
Remember over half of us did not support him in any way. Pray for America.
We're screwed
@@garygagnon4637Nah you guys will have a safer more prosperous country with more money in your pockets while still claiming Trump is the devil. Enjoy your right to free speech fellow American.
@@amrg211Americans are gonna pay higher prices for these tarrifs, this is what the people wanted believe me
@@OrangeClown34 May be. May be not. Why not wait and see. If he’s everything you guys seem to think he is then rightfully go in on him, but may be just may be he’s not the monster you guys have ben led to believe.
@@amrg211how can you say he's not a monster when he's proven to us time and time again over and over what a monster he is?
Among all Christmas gifts Helen will receive this year, i wish there is a ultrasonic eyeglass cleaner👓
I need one too.
Summary : the world is screwed 😢
We have bee too lenient towards ignorance and feelings. Just tell people who are wrong that they are wrong.
That does not work in America
So YOU are wrong….
Thank you 👍
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I wish you well......
@@lynetteneal945 Don't wish. Participate. Do your part.
HURRY UP
'True Progressive' basically lets divide people into ever more tighter groups and then place grievance labels worth points... 160 points if you of a marginalised group, 100 points for black, 50 points for Asians and of course minus 500 points for white working class without a college education and add minus a thousand point if you love your country...As an immigrant, I saw us coming together, yes racism was pretty bad in the 70's but it got better in the 80's and even better in the 90's and by the early 2000's I thought we had got there as both the far right and the far left had been pushed into the far corners....but out of no where this new word started popping up 'progressive' along with diverse, inclusive etc. etc. and this has undone all the hard work to bring people and communities together..how utterley sad...
@@vMaxHeadroomexactly.
3:20 - "when you don't give the real customer what they pay for, uh...they go somewhere else" genius stuff here
this is why democrats loss
"The primary problem is not disinformation. The primary problem is people listen to it because key functions of their government aren't working, and they're asking themselves: why doesn't it work?"
Alex karp
No no, it's primarily disinformation
Nope, that does not hold water, proven by the fact there are MILLIONS of us out here that live in the same country, the same states, the same cities and we did not fall for the disinformation, we use our critical-thinking skills. Until certain people act like accountable adults and realize A) they have been duped by soundbites because they could not be bothered to check the veracity of a conspiracy before repeating/sharing it, and B) make an effort to push back against the people who assumed them to be gullible enough to fall for nonsense...
Oh it is a great deal of misinformation including what you just said.
Absolutely correct. The government is not representing it's constituents ... Just the corporations.
Partly agree, however no government or country will be prosperous all the time through any circumstances, there will always be situations of distress on any country and democracies are far easier to be taken advantage of during these situations.
Great job in normalizing Trump’s behaviour, Ian
Yes, it's quite a thing to hear describing despotic, undemocratic and parafascist political behaviours as "interesting"...
Well,
Mr. Ian Bremmer explains what happened in this 2024 presidential election very well.
Pendulums swing. The End.
And the doomsday clock gets ever closer to 12....
The pendulum may have swung all the way around.
If we "still have a functioning House & Senate, in 2026" it will be "interesting" to see How "popular" Trump-GOP Policies are with Americans (If Americans are still capable of "disseminating any facts)"..
No matter what, a huge contingent of people here will believe what they are fed. Right now, they’re being fed by Elon Musk’s X, where he controls the narrative. So, even if they’re going through a bad situation, they may not recognize it. He who controls the narrative, wins!
Very insightly interview.
The cope is strong with this one.
To me, it looks and sound like he's trying to hide his TDS
It really isn't. Its precisely right. Tell me what he is wrong about.
What a thoughtful discussion.
But Mr Bremmer, you are a part of media now. I listen to you to understand better different issues on the international stage. Far from I always agree with your take on everything but you are honest about it. I listen to several other analysts as well eg Mersheimer, Jeffrey Sachs, Glenn Diesen etc. Legacy media? Not so much other then to take the pulse on what the official "narrative" is. Most MSM now basically activism journalism...gets boring and uninteresting very quickly.
News Policy: If there is no news - make it up; If you don't like the news - change it; But above all - get paid for it.
What is the direction that America did not agree with?
The embrace of illegals wokeness trans issues grocery prices gas prices massive foreign aid just to name a few!
With Germany yesterday, Ian Bremmer just the person to interview. Foreign policy seems to already be in Trump's hands with BiBi. Hope Ian says differently.
Thought leaders abound and the multiplicity of perspectives that create shared values are mirrored in the comments. We guard against our own biases. Power is neutral, it for whom we weild it that makes us exponential or imploding. We will the good for humankind. As you have mentioned, we make mistakes, we are fallible, we learn from each other's fallibility. Thank you Ian for bringing more to light.
JD Vance has 24 mos of Political Experience, and was Theil's "appointee" .. Trump's got Musk / Musk's got Trump (for now) ..
He's now 'The Apprentice'. Much loyalty will his master demand from him.
She represented decency! A plused why that no longer counts😢
Brilliant analysis. "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy ride [night]...."
6:07 Inflation is going to spike under Trump's policies, and these will also raise inflation in the Western democracies, which are struggling to reduce their debts from covid binge spending, through taxation.
14:50 I agree, the 2 year run up to an election, (and its obscene cost) is an industry unto itself. Already I heard the day after the election " we are now 1 day closer to the mid terms". Surely this perpetual politics is a major reason why half of the eligible electorate do not vote.
Do we need to create a gofundme for better mic for TED? Poor TED without any funds to afford a decent mic. 😢
Ian doesn't "look / sound devastated" by the Fall of American Liberal democracy ..
I'm glad to see Ian again
I enjoyed this a lot and feel I learned a few things too. Great interview
Remember when TED was cool and interesting Technology, Entertainment, and Design? Politics infect everything. I don't want or need to hear your politics, I can get that on literally every show, every channel, every social media platform.
Disinfect TED
It’s almost unwatchable now.
I remember 11ish years ago, seeing an episode where a woman talked about the power in being wrong, and how it was an advantage to find those instances and learn/grow from them. That one talk alone helped my life significantly.
Now, the political horseradish TED pushes resembles nothing like what it shared 11 years ago.
drama brings more revenue
It's become almost insufferable
Are you suggesting you are tied to a chair and forced to watch? If there is a specific video you don't want to watch....don't watch it, I've done that for the entire history of TED, it's very simple unless you are (ironically) looking to score a political point.
When I was watching traditional media news, I would watch the speech that Trump would give in full then listen to what the the media said about it and it was never the truth on what he was saying. It's as simple as that.
About half of those who did vote didn't vote for him, he did receive less votes than he did in 2016, and there were 14 million people who did not vote
Bremmer sounds quite pro Trump and considers Trump clever and a decent leader: I hear no real alarm or concern about Trump being the new U.S. leader. I hear no concern about Trump’s age, physical fitness or mental instability. He seems to present Trump as a very smooth, slick operator who has learned from the past.
though his book; Power Shift was published in 1990 and I just finished reading it and a brief of summary of what Toffler wrote 30 years ago:
In Powershift, Alvin Toffler describes a shift in power from traditional government and economic sources to a new "third wave" of influence driven by knowledge and information control. This "third government" isn’t a formal government but a network of non-state actors-like corporations, media, and global organizations-that shape power by controlling narratives. Toffler’s vision aligns with current dynamics in the 2024 election, where media, social networks, and corporate influence play a large role, illustrating how power is now more decentralized and information-driven.
JD Vance has star power??? Really. Bring in the WWF as secretary of commerce??? Is the circus coming to the White House ???
@@DEREKAGIBSON Cant be worse than the geriatric ward and cackle factory can it?
@@amrg211oh, it will be worse. Alot worse. Especially for the people who voted for Trump
Trump 2024
8:10 The question asked is facile and alarming. Many Americans know the numbers, too, but the truth to them is rent increases of 10-20%, 3+ years of loan rate increases, and car insurance increases of $1000s/year, so lower inflation reports are a meaningless metric. Even Americans with wealth feel it. It’s not denial of the numbers, it just doesn’t ring true compared to reality.
And the over-analysis continues.
The simple fact is that 72% of potential voters did not care to stop Trump from reinhabiting the Whitehouse. Everyone knew who he was. Ignorance is no excuse when apathy is the reason.
37:31 Ian doing a Trump impression🤣
It was recoil from woking up.
great talk
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hahaha. I like that they think that way about Trump. They will use same tactics on 2028! So it’s predictable on them. 😅Will be ready.
really you think there will be free and fair elections again
Trump promised no elections after he wins.
What a great day for the country. The garbage fell out of the coconut tree and made their voices heard. And the republic was saved.
Stop promoting incompetent shills like Bremmer on TED.
Jack Ma owned Alibaba and was the richest man in China until he “crossed” the CCP. HE criticized the Chinese government. He disappeared and now is a teacher. Will Elon Musk use his influence on Trump to favor China or face the dire consequence of CCP’s displeasure?
Inflation is going to skyrocket too funny.
Truth? What is that?
The relationship between what you perceive and how you respond. Hold that. Be kind.
"Why am I worried for Taiwan" .. And will Marcos Jr become more like his father or will Duterte make a comeback .. Indonesia, Malaysia ? I'm worried about Democracy on the run, without US (US Backed UN) "Requiring Human Rights" ..
8 minutes. Anyone that is going to be honest about it and actually watched CNN NBC ABC all running up to the election would say that all of those outlets were disingenuous in both their coverage and polling numbers.
I am so sad that there are only 446 comments on this discussion at this time.........logical discourse could die..........:(
It’s only been 19 hrs since this came out. We are still trying to figure out what the heck hit us.
Hannity has been replaced by Musk. Is this a good thing ?
Interesting. Thanks for the explanation.
Thank you for your insights. But just as a reminder only half of the American citizens share trump's values and we are deeply concerned about the future of our country and its relationship with our allies and adversaries.
Bigger glasses. She needs BIGGER GLASSES!
1:34 the Russians!? What year is this? Isn't that nonsense like eight years old?
Wasn't it also proven to be factually false and deliberately done by the Clinton team 🫠
No they meddled in this election also. Evidence to back it up
Biden got 81m votes in the last election and Kamala only got 68m whereas Trump got the same number of votes. What happened to those 13m votes? How did they magically disappear?
I would say they died but they were dead in 2020 too😂
@@kennytran5020really funny comrade, thanks for ruining the country
You see, there's this thing called "learning how to count," which you need to work on since you haven't waited for all the votes to be counted, and there was this thing called covid lockdowns, which gave everyone unlimited free time, and there is this thing called "turnout," which I can best describe in the sentence "your braincells didn't turnout when you wrote that comment."
I know way too many who voted democratic last time, who didn’t vote this time. There’s no conspiracy here; it’s primarily the youth vote. Millions participated in the “no vote” movement to make a point to Dems, especially about the war.
@@Moonspec😂😂
Excellent interview
Concede in short order? REDICULOUS!
Making TED talks great again............not
Why does he care about Elon so much? What about Google and Microsoft?
How do workers' wages in USA compare with those in China? 🤔
The national minimum wage is still $7.25 literally the same amount 😂
I think kool aid agrees with him. Too bad. We could use him on our side.
so true
GDP is no measure of a working person’s lived experience, much of what it measures is actually a sign of extreme unhealthiness in its citizens (healthcare costs, military spending for example) but the bottom line is that saying wages have risen more than anytime in the previous 20 years, is not recognising that a 10% increase in wages offset against 40% of inflation is a decrease to the worker.
We do know this, and we see through the mealy mouthed data recital from people on $1,000,000 a year. We also know that your financial ascendancy relies on our impoverishment.
We know the profits generated from our labour are going to shareholders and stock buybacks that benefit the wealthy in the form of dividends and obscene bonuses instead of into growing our measly cut.
The gig is up, and when Trump destroys the economy we have nothing left to lose, and even better, we know you do.
Terrified of a Trump presidency, really worried of economic growth, lower cost of living, ending of wars and fixing our broken health system. 😢
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Why are you really worried about economic growth, lower cost of living, ending wars and fixing our broken health system? Those sound like the good things Trump will do that I'm excited about.😕
@@Heidicode Thats what he promised.... either without saying how he plans to do so - or giving simplistic plans that hundreds of subject-matter specialist say will make things much worse. Think of the 100 professors.
How do you people keep believing him? Keep believing he can get stuff done?
His first admin was largely him making promises that never materialized. He just says stuff, but never delievers.
Its not what he "will do" but what he fabulated about, giving no reason but blind hope to believe it.
Ahh well, you elected the man. We all will have to suffer the consequences.
I hope I´m wrong and your unfounded belief in a proven conman miraculously tunrs out correct.
But I would be reeeeaallly surprised if in 4 years both of us are not much poorer and the US a much worse place to live in.
@@Heidicodeyour obliviousness is amazing. Thank you for making me smile today.
Hahaha😮😮😮😮 How about bringing a candidate that the majority of people will vote for? 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
So he is with Musk on first names. He also defends Trump's words.
And, what no one is emphasizing is that many people, that likely would have voted for Harris, sat out the election because of Gaza…
those who sat out because of Gaza will be in for a rude awakening
Re: 6:25, Prices don't "come down". I mean, please call out the stupidity of this belief, which is widespread among Trump voters, i.e. the idea that Trump is not only going to tame inflation but is going to make "prices go down". There is no such thing. That's called deflation. If that is happening, the economy is in a really bad place.
So he'll start a war in middle east after saying he'll stop wats?😅
And that will put the brakes on anything else on his agenda.
I love watching the credentialists squirm. “You can’t ascertain truth from fiction. You NEED us.” 😂
Biden did not invite Elon to an EV what? I didn’t get the final word.
So glad for people like Ian. Willing to just telling the truth instead of clinging to the collective
Selinsky has to suck up to Trump if he wants any more support give me a break
I always love hearing from Ian, almost no one else has a better grasp on geopolitics today.
But it's not inflation actually, but buying power isn't it. And how anyone can think that the sponsors of the Republican party will stand for policies that will improve the buying power of the bottom 50-75% I consider the great con of modern times.
thank God for bright minds
The fairness doctrine is sorely missed
Interestingly the first sign it was going away was Rush Limbaugh